Red Sprites over the Channel
Mysterious and incredibly brief, red sprites are seen to occur high above large thunderstorms on planet Earth. While they have been recorded from low Earth orbit or high flying airplanes, these dancing, lightning-like events werecaptured in video frames from a mountain top perch in northern France. Taken during the night of May 28, the remarkably clear, unobstructed view looks toward a multicell storm system raging over the English Channel about 600 kilometers away. Lasting only a few milliseconds, the red sprite association withthunderstorms is known. Still, much remains a mystery about the fleeting apparitions including the nature of their relation to other upper atmospheric lightning phenomena such as blue jets or satellite detected terrestrial gamma flashes.
Image &info via APOD
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Image Credit & Copyright: Stephane Vetter (Nuits sacrees, TWAN)
#NASA #naturalphenomena #redsprites #space
Very pretty and mysterious.
ReplyDeletePing BW π ... SPRITES!!
ReplyDeleteA beautiful effect!! Thanks, Michael Ireland !!
ReplyDeleteI just wonder why the APoD / NASA texts are copied regularly on this site without credit at the start of the post...
This is my page and I copy/ post and edit how I want.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely, and the posts are fascinating, Corina Marinescu ! Posting the texts as your own without credit is simply not nice, and misleading, is all. Taking this post and the "holes in Mars" post as random samples, all the people who reshared these posts publicly, gave you proper credit for the text, and probably (this is a guess) assume you wrote it.
ReplyDeleteWondering that credit with link that's at the end of a post isn't found at the top of it -- channels petty moralism, imho.
ReplyDeleteI'll assume you're not blind and you can see the credits , link and everything BW π. I don't care who shared or credited me or anything else.
ReplyDeleteCredits are there, sources are there...what happens after is not my concerned.
But to not stress your retina any longer I'll simply block you.
Some of the images NASA show can seem quite otherworldly and surreal, it goes to show how much we don't know or have not captured yet. This could be some kind of alien portal, or warp hole opening. I expect not, but interesting to imagine.
ReplyDeleteI do wonder how these phenomena look through the eyes of another animal, a tetrachromat or even a synesthete (what kind of tune, or even a symphony). Unless you can transfer your mind to another body, how others perceive the world will always be a mystery.
A side-effect of the ambiguity on the authorship of the cut-and-pasted sentences is that it makes it fair to challenge you on their assertions, Corina Marinescu. Now it's true that we are few to occasionally do so:)
ReplyDeleteI don't care about that...my collections are a series of posts that I find interesting on multiples subjects. Sources are stated, links are provided and so on.
ReplyDeleteThe way I edit my posts and choose to share them are strictly my choice and this is not debatable. If anyone has a problem with this...I suggest to not visit this page.
Corina Marinescu
ReplyDeleteMmmh sounds like you might have misread my "challenge you on their assertions" (what I occasionally do) as "challenge you about their ownership" (like BW π did, but I never do).
As you know I guess, my own take on this is captured thanks to the ambiguity of the French "je suis" as "je pense comme je pense, donc je suis qui je suis". As far as intellectual property goes, to own should mean understanding and responsibility, before any worry about original authorship and credit.
I got it Boris...however I agree with providing the sources and references.
ReplyDeleteBut wondering why I didn't post the credits at the top or middle...or left/right is not really something to debate about. Sources, references and credits will always be at the end ...because I say so.
#HAARP?
ReplyDeleteAlways important to give credit where credit is due, regardless of where in the text the credits are. I also tend to format with italics or block quotes if the words are not my own, as I believe people generally associate that with content from another source.
ReplyDeleteToo much trouble for nothing...my page is not a magazine, peer reviewed journal or something similar. When credit is due will always be stated if not well, that is my personal neurocrap. Not interested to blend or play with fonts or anything similar.
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ReplyDeleteCorina Marinescu
ReplyDeleteHappy As A Resting Possum. Or....
How An Accomplished Researcher Posts.
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I just look at the pretty pics; the credit is quite secondary to me considering this is just a social media stream after all. End, left, right, top, whatever ... To me, the fact that there are references anywhere is sufficient for me. But, I suppose there are those among my friends (including Gizmo here) who take exception. /Sigh ... Oh well. In any case, I think it's barely an argument worth having. It's G+, not National Geographic.
ReplyDelete😘Corina😘 smettila di copiare tutti i miei post! 😂😅🤣😊❤
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